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\j  [Senate  Bill,  No.  109.] 

SENATE,  November  22,  1864  — Read  first  and  second  times  and 
ordered  to  be  phiced  upon  the  calendar  and  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Henry,  from  Committee  on  Military  Affairs.] 


^]Sr    A.CT 

To  amend  An  Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  increase  the  efficiency  of 
the  army  by  employing  free  negroes  and  slaves  in  certain  capaci- 
ties," approved  February   17th,   1864. 

1  Section    1.    The  Congress  of  the   Confederate    ^'  •'  •-  of  America 

2  do   enact.  That   the  first  section  of  said  act  be  so  amended  as 

3  to  increase  the  compensation  given    to    the    free    negroes  and 

4  other  free  persons  of  color  named  in   said  section  to  eighteen 

5  dollars  per  month.  * 

1  Sec  2.    That  the  second  section   of  said  act  be  so  r.mended 

2  as  to  authorize  the    Secretary  of    War  to  cmpoly,  for  all  the 

3  purposes  named  in  tic  first  section  of  said  act,  forty  thousand 

4  slavi.';^,   instead  of  twcm^^,    thousand,   as  therein  provi>Ied. 

1  Sec.   3.    That  the    third    section  of  said  act  be  so  amended 

2  as  to  authorize  the    Secretary  of   War  to  impress  forty  thoa- 

3  sand  slaves  in  case  he  f-hall    be  unable    to    procure  their  ser- 

4  vices  or  hire  as  therein   provided. 

1         Sfx.  4.  That  the  fourth  section   of  said  act  be  amended  by 


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2  adJing    thereto,    that    after     free    negroes    are     impressed,    in 

S  making  impressments  of   slaves,    those   not   engaged    in  agri- 

4  culture,  manufacturing,  and  mechanical  pursuits,  shall  be  first 

5  impressed,  and  in    case    there    shall    then    be    any  deficiency, 

6  further  impressments  of  slaves  shall  be  made  by  taking   them 

7  from  those  persons  who  have  fifteen  or  more  able-bodied  field 

8  hands  between  sixteen  and  fifty  years  of  age. 


